The Pottery Piazza - A Paint Your Own Pottery Studio in Plainville invited the public to help paint and decorate 400 ceramic snowflakes to donate as part of the CT PTSA's plans to create a Winter Wonderland in the temporary new school for the children of Sandy Hook Elementary as they have requested snowflakes to decorate with.

Starting Dec. 26th, local members of the community and surrounding towns were invited to stop by The Pottery Piazza at 17 Farmington Ave. in Plainville to help paint snowflake ornaments which we will glaze and fire in our kilns at the studio and deliver to the CT PTSA by Jan. 12th.

We purchased many ornaments and many of our ceramic suppliers were willing to make a matching donation of ornaments and also donate paints and glazes for this undertaking which was greatly appreciated. We did this because in a time when we all feel helpless to do something more and we would love to help bring smiles to the children of Sandy Hook who need our support. What better a way to share our abilities than to open our doors to people who also feel helpless to do something meaningful and help us create lasting snowflakes that once used to help decorate the school, can later be given to the families and those affected as a memory of the support that our community would like to give to Newtown.

The local community was invited to come to The Pottery Piazza during business hours between Dec. 26 and Jan. 1 to help us paint the snowflakes. An area of the studio was set up to paint and staff will be there to help for those who need instruction. We were pleased that local community came and helped us make something special and meaningful for Sandy Hook. There was no cost to participate.